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Collection
Identifier: 002.05.13
Description of the Collection
Correspondence and a photograph related to Armour Institute of Technology professor of mechanical engineering James C. Peebles, circa 1926-1933. Photocopy of a typed letter (6 pages) to Armour Institute of Technology President Howard M. Raymond from Associate Professor James Peebles in opposition to moving the college site to Evanston, dated March 29, 1926. The second item is a class photo of Armour Institute of Technology Class of 1933, with head shots of graduates and class officers. The...
Dates:
1926-1933; 1926
Collection
Identifier: 038.01.48
Content Description
1 steel sculpture, custom made wooden pedestal and accompanying manuscript and print materials. The manuscript and print materials were evidently collected by Bonnie Blake-Drucker, a fine art photographer (including some items mailed directly to her by Prestini). Present are three photocopies of press coverage of Prestini, 1991-1993 (including his obituary); an envelope postmarked January 13, 1992, mailed by Prestini to Blake-Drucker (containing notices of various exhibits featuring his...
Dates:
1950-2004
Collection
Identifier: 008.02.04
Description of the Collection
Materials concerning the Institute of Design collected by James S. Montague during his tenure as a faculty member and director of the school. The collection includes special publications, historical items, documents and communications, and mainly printed ephemera and publications by the Institute of Design.
Dates:
1948-1994; Majority of material found within 1950-1978
Collection
Identifier: 019.04.02
Description of the Collection
The papers in this collection cover James W. Vice's years as Dean of Students at Illinois Institute of Technology from 1975-1988. The correspondence reflects his various areas of responsibility, including student discipline, counseling, campus residential life, and student organizations. Also present are copies of letters of recommendation written by Vice in support of students he knew well. The collection also includes an autobiographical essay written by Vice in 2002 describing the start...
Dates:
1975-1988
Collection
Identifier: 036.05.03
Description of the Collection
Unedited color video (65 minutes) of James Watson's lecture, "From the Double Helix to the Human Genome Project," given at Illinois Institute of Technology on April 15, 1999 recounting his discovery of DNA structure and later scientific research activities. Introductions by Lori Andrews and Lew Collens include biographical information on Watson.
Dates:
1999
Collection
Identifier: 025.04.28
Content Description
Materials produced by award-winning fine art photographer Jane Olin, including prints and exhibition catalogs. Materials include images, lists, documentation, and promotional materials for Olin's "In the Company of Trees" exhibition, which was housed in Illinois Tech's Kemper Room (Paul V. Galvin Library) from September 2023 to March 2024.
Dates:
2014-2023
Collection
Identifier: 001.04.03
Description of the Collection
Materials related to Janet Lewis including an issue of Caxtonian featuring Janet Lewis and her husband Arthur Ivor Winters, a photocopy of the essay “The Return of Janet Lewis” by Larry McMurtry published in The New York Review of Books, and a photocopy of her obituary from The New York Times. Also includes two books authored by Janet Lewis: The Wife of Martin Guerre; Swallow Press Books; Seventh Printing; 1984; copyright 1967. Poems Old and New, 1918 – 1978; Swallow Press; Reprinted 1982;...
Dates:
1941-1999
Collection
Identifier: 008.03.06
Description of the Collection
Materials related to Institute of Design, primarily the text of lectures delivered in connection with the 1948 "Society and Design" seminar. Items include:
Reprint: The Task of This Generation: Reintegration of Art into Daily Life by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; reprinted from the Department of Art Education N.E.A. 1944 Bulletin.
Typescripts: Lectures given at Institute of Design: Form and...
Dates:
1944-2002
Collection
Identifier: 008.02.03
Description of the Collection
The Jay Doblin collection is heavily composed of graphic materials and photo prints, much of it generated in support of his “One Hundred Great Product Designs” research (and subsequent books). But it also amply documents the Institute of Design, with files on student projects/theses, various courses (including some syllabi), space station designs from 1986, Ken Isaccs and his Knowledge Box, and clipping files (mainly from Chicago newspapers) on notable ID achievements (especially student...
Dates:
1946-1988
Collection
Identifier: 038.01.24
Description of the Collection
Advertising poster in German designed by Johannes Molzahn in 1928 and published by Kunstgewerbeschule Magdeburg (Germany), apparently to promote physical education and hygiene.
Dates:
1928
